#psychedelics

Navigating Wonderland With Jon Hopkins and Music for Psychedelic Therapy

It can evoke joy, heartbreak, or terror. It can cause you to dance, laugh, shake, or cry. It can bring you up into space or ground you back down to reality. It can open up the luminous rainbows of a commencing...

Annie White

HIGH NOTESListening to Dirtwire's 'Electric River' on Mushrooms

Dirtwire photo by Mika Gurovich. Over Thanksgiving break, I found myself with a friend in a San Francisco hotel room on a rainy day without any plans. I also found myself with a bag of cubensis mushrooms another friend of mine had just grown, as well as the Soundcloud link Dirtwire's latest album,...

Annie White

HIGH NOTESMusic Can Completely Alter the Course of a Trip

I’m in a living room overlooking the water in Vinkeveen, The Netherlands, surrounded by a dozen people tripping on ayahuasca, when the ceremony’s leader approaches my bed. “This song is for you,” she says. “I’m being guided to come to you.” She sits down in front of me and looks into my eyes as...

Annie White